Rats in a Cage Match - Episode 99

Can Falk pin the corrupt boss of Parabellum City’s professional wrestling organization? Why is the crowd so quiet? Do frogs really stay in a pot of water if you turn up the heat gradually? Listen to find out!

Rats in a Cage Match, episode 99 of This Gun in My Hand, was slammed into a turnbuckle by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities.
How do I pin a person to the mat? With This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. I was going to insert a sample of “Hey Murgatroyd, let’s go-o-oo!” from “Jam On It” by Newcleus, but I couldn’t isolate the vocal from the not-very-1939 music.
2. Falk might be thinking of the Wallace Beery wrestling picture Flesh (1932).
3. Don Knotts would count as an animal shapeshifter in The Incredible Mister Limpet (1964), right? I watched the full movie last night because that’s the level of commitment I bring to researching this show.
4. Regina slips up when she says, “I already said the episode title…” proving that she is really Petra! but Falk misses it.

Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950). The music clip during the commercial was from The Scar (1948, aka Hollow Triumph). The closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), all three films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

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License: Public Domain
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License: Public Domain
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License: Public Domain
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License: Public Domain
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License: Public Domain
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License: Public Domain
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License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/486204/

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License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
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License: Public Domain
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The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from the public domain comic G.I. Joe, Number 14 (October 1951) from Ziff-Davis Publications. Artist unknown, pencils and inks might be by Carmine Infantino and Frank Giacoia.

Do Androids Dream of His Girl Friday? - Episode 98

What happens when Falk gets stuck in a screwball comedy? Can Falk weed out the humans from the androids? Do androids dream of His Girl Friday? Listen to find out!

Do Androids Dream of His Girl Friday? , episode 98 of This Gun in My Hand, was manufactured not by the Tyrell Corporation but by Rob Northrup, using dialogue from the 1940 public domain film His Girl Friday, which was adapted from the 1928 public domain play The Front Page. The part of Walter Burns was played by Cary Grant, with Rosalind Russell as Hildy Johnson and Ralph Bellamy as Bruce Baldwin. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How do I survive a screwball comedy? With This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. The 1940 film His Girl Friday was adapted from a 1928 stage play titled The Front Page, both in the public domain. Dialogue in this episode was taken from His Girl Friday. (Link below.) It’s excellent but has (CONTENT WARNING) the kind of racism and sexism you might expect in a 1940 film. There’s also a one hour Lux Radio Theater adaptation starring Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert; a Screen Guild Theater radio adaptation starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell squeezed down into a half hour; and an even more offensive, grittier 1970 film of The Front Page starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. And there’s a 1931 film version of The Front Page which I have yet to watch.
https://archive.org/details/his_girl_friday

Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), with transitional music from His Girl Friday (1940) and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), all films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

The two women saying “pixielated” were from the Campbell Playhouse radio adaptation of “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,” broadcast February 11, 1940, public domain. 

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License: Public Domain
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License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
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The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a promotional photo by A. L. Schafer for the 1940 film His Girl Friday showing Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy sitting next to each other. Superimposed over Ralph Bellamy’s face is the robot from The Phantom Creeps (1939) from another promotional photo (photographer unknown).

How Did This Gun in My Hand Get Made - Episode 97

We’re gonna ballyhoo some stinkeroos,
Shows as cheesy as Milwaukee.
We’re gonna box up the radio and ship it to Biloxi.
Hot Dog! This Guy’s Got Moxie!

Paul, June & Jason of the popular show HDTGGM try to answer the question: how did This Gun in My Hand get made?

How Did This Gun in My Hand Get Made, episode 97 of This Gun in My Hand, was ballyhooed by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What tool did I use to make this? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. When Jason Manticore is introduced, the audience is not booing. They’re actually shouting, “Zoooo!” A manticore is a mythical creature. They love him so much, they want to keep him in a zoo.

2. The audio credits at the end of the first episode of This Gun in My Hand said that all the voices were by one person, but not everyone listens to the credits or reads the show notes, as you might be demonstrating if you’re not reading this.

3. The reviews that Paul claims to have found in radio magazines are actual reviews of this podcast posted on various websites. It was my wife in real life who said she liked the part where a female character punches me.
https://thisguninmyhand.blogspot.com/2023/03/praise-for-this-gun-in-my-hand.html

Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Detective Fiction Weekly, Volume 127, Number 4 (April 15, 1939), public domain art by Emmett Watson.